Deep fried inductor...

I've recently been restoring an H8/H17 system. Almost all of the problems involved capacitors, including a bad electrolytic in the H17 (diskette unit) power supply. I repaired the H17 supply using a dummy load but apparently the H17 was run with the bad supply before I got it. I say this because some of the tantalum caps on the logic boards of the Wangco model 82 diskette drives popped and/or burned when correct power was supplied to them. I've seen plenty of the "teardrop" tantalums pop, but I've never seen one of the "black suppository" types (used on these drives) go. I believe this was the result of bad ripple in the supply. Anyway, one of the Wangcos now runs perfectly and the other runs fine for a while but fails after about an hour of applied power. The difference between the two is that, on the flaky drive, a cap in series with an inductor did a slow burn, resulting in the inductor having a "nice brown toasty" appearance and a small split in one side that some red resin leaked from. By the way, the only way I know this is an inductor is that it is labeled "L5". It looks like a large beige resistor with too many color stripes on it. Inductors are a weak area in my electronics knowledge. How would you know for sure that one has failed? Does it fail open? Other info: When the drive fails, it can not read any data and, when seeks are attempted on it, it sounds "funny", not the nice sharp click it makes when operating correctly. The inductor does not feel hot to the touch when the drive has failed. I'm out of cool spray. Tonight I will try to apply an ice cube in a plastic bag to it to see if that gets it out of failure mode. Finally, assuming it is the problem, what do I need to replace it? The stripes on it are: Wide silver (covering one end) Red Yellow Brown Gold Thanks, Bill